I know, I know --- the President’s gone all weak and wobbly following the mid-term elections, and his Presidency is doomed; the country’s doomed.  It’s all over, and we’ve been beaten by Karl Rove once again, along with the help of the right-wing Supreme Court decision that handed corporate America anonymity in their political donations to the Republican Party. OR, it just might be possible tha ...

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS reports their analysis of the tax deal President Obama struck with Republicans.  CHECK-IT-OUT here. "Our analysis of the framework tax agreement that President Barack Obama announced yesterday, including additional tax cuts and an extension of unemployment insurance, finds that 2.2 million jobs will be the end result. In this time of economic distress, millions of n ...

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF W.'S TAX CUTS!

Here's an idea for how Dems can win elections --- TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT WE STAND FOR! What does the Republican Party stand for?  Easy:  Smaller Government/Lower Taxes.  What does the Democratic Party stand for?  Not so easy:  No bumper-sticker slogans.  The Republican Party has a 40 year head start on the Democratic Party in the messaging department, and it's way past time to stop letti ...

CHECK-IT-OUT:  SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO JOB GROWTH WHEN PRESIDENT CLINTON RAISED TAXES ON THE WEALTHY, AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED WHEN W. CUT TAXES ON THE WEALTHY.

UP-DATE:  Check-it-Out at the New York Times.  Economist David Leonhart explains that the FACTS do not support the Republican assertion that the Bush Tax-Cuts for the rich created jobs.  We learn that in the decade that these draconian tax-cuts have been in place has been the slowest decade for job growth since the 1940s.  So the BIG question to be answered is:  Since we know that these tax-cuts d ...

Republicans tell us that "The American People have spoken" in last Tuesday's mid-term elections.  Well, if you consider 42% of registered voters --- or 90 million of America’s 300 million people --- as representing The American People, then they certainly have spoken.  And yet, considering that most of the results of these elections were decided by razor thin majorities, can we honestly say tha ...

On five hours sleep this election night the main emotion I'm feeling is relief that the tsunami has come and gone.  Amid the destruction there are a few points of gratitude.  California has given us a Democratic Governor and returned Barbara Boxer to the Senate.  It's so nice to live in a sane state Sister Sarah has egg on her face with several of her Tea Party candidates going down in flame ...

In a previous post I declared that I had worked through my grief over the mid-term elections, and had found a peaceful place of resignation --- along with a certain kind of hopeful expectation that the Republican Party is self-destructing.  Check-It-Out:  REPUBLICANS GO THE WAY OF THE WHIGS. Well ... maybe that was just a brave attempt at putting-on-a-good-face, and rationalization as a band-ai ...

We recently posted an article about Eleanor Roosevelt and the history of mine safety --- it first appeared on May 23, 2010 in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette --- "Eleanor Roosevelt said it well:  Workplace rights are human rights," by California Bay Area scholar Brigid O'Farrell.  Check-it-out HERE.  She has a newly released book that is gaining attention and acclaim, She Was One of Us:  Eleanor Roo ...